present made to the College Library of Dowden's 'interesting popular treatise on botany' [Botany of the Bohereens]. Adds that the value is enhanced by '...its connection with Cork, and by the uniform interest which its author has shown for diffusing useful knowledge in the South of Ireland'.
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U140/L/046
Date:
29 Aug 1848
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Letter from Sydney Herbert
Extent: 1p Scope and Content: MS. note from Sydney Herbert, [Fort William], to Richard Dowden, encloses cheque for £25 to Father Mathew fund.
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U140/L/047
Date:
22 Jul 1848
Level : item Title:
Letter from Thomas Dix Hincks
Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:
MS. letter from Thomas Dix Hincks to Richard Dowden asking him to communicate with Hincks son Edward. Mentions building of the Colleges, urging case of "our institution", [Royal Cork Institution]. Mentions other names, etc. (Partially illegible)
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U140/L/048
Date:
1857 - 1858
Level : series Title:
Letters from John Hogan
Extent: 5 items Scope and Content:
1. 16 Feb 1857 MS. letter from John Hogan, sculptor (b1800 - d1858), 14 Wentworth Place, Dublin, to Richard Dowden, Cork. He was gratified to be consulted concerning the proposed statue by the committee of the Mathew Testimonial. The figure should be colossal, eight feet in height. His estimate for erection in bronze and on a pedestal is £1,200, '...with a sincere desire that the work which my fellow Citizens of Cork have...taken in hands, should be executed in a style worthy of them and worthy of the Illustrious Apostle of Temperance...'. Refers to the serious loss of artists on public commissions, and to the statue of O'Connell for Limerick. Also 2 calling cards of John Hogan, a member of the Institutio al Pantheon in Rome. (3pp plus 2 items) 2. 22 Mar 1855 As above. He would have replied sooner, but received an order to model a bust of a very distinguished man. Refers to a 'little group in ivory and bronze...such buresque subjects...only fitting...for Algerians and New Zealanders...'. Refers to the 'Redeemer After Death' in the South Chapel, where his remuneration was fixed at £500, and he has only received £272.10s, a transaction that has 'neither honour, justice or honesty' on the part of the priests and parishioners. Asks Dowden to assist in having 'common justice done'. Mentions Dowden taking Miss Dowden to see the
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